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Latest Bushfire stories on ABC South West WA

The Yarloop bushfire of January 2016 was one of the worst in Western Australia's history, burning through 70,000 hectares of bush over 17 days, claiming two lives and destroying almost 200 properties. As some residents of the small rural town of Yarloop prepare to mark the bushfire's first ...

An independent review into Western Australia's worst ever bushfire has declared that the state's management system is 'failing Government and Western Australians'. The Waroona blaze in January this year burned for a fortnight, killing two people and all but destroying the timber town of ...

One month after fire destroyed the historic West Australia town of Yarloop, residents are still struggling to come to terms with the scale of the destruction. There's growing anger about the speed with which Government has committed to clean up and concern about whether the Government will ...

The Western Australian Government is being urged to expand the scope of an inquiry into the Yarloop bushfire just a day after the terms of reference were unveiled. Fire-fighting groups are concerned the current inquiry fails to address the growing trend of destructive blazes across the state ...

Latest Bushfire stories on ABC Online

New South Wales is nearing the end of its third consecutive day of bushfires, with 38 bush and grassfires effecting the state and eight yet to be contained. In Tabulam, a woman has been charged with starting a fire by setting rubbish alight during a total fire ban. And fire officials have downgraded ...

Ten years ago Ella Holcombe's parents and the family's beloved dog Brittany died in the fires that swept through Kinglake in Victoria. Now she has written a children's book to mark the anniversary of Black Saturday. It is called The House on the Mountain and is illustrated by David Cox. ...